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Chinese Company Offers $4.7 Billion for Smithfield Foods

Posted by M C on Friday, May 31, 2013, In : Meat 


Smithfield Foods is the world’s largest pork processor.   According to Wikipedia, the company raises around 15 million pigs a year and in 2007 it slaughtered nearly 115,000 pigs each day.  Pork producers in the United States are highly industrialized.  Pigs are raised in something called a vertical integration system that enables the company to control the production of pork – from gestation to slaughter to meat processing.

Matthew Scully, author of the book Dominion writes: “About 80 mi...

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Instead of Eating a Turkey, Why Don't You Adopt One?

Posted by M C on Sunday, November 18, 2012, In : Meat 



This is Thyme – one of the turkeys I adopted from Farm Sanctuary this year.  She is one lucky turkey.  She was rescued from a factory farm and is living the life of a happy turkey.

Now I want to tell you about the other 98% of turkeys in this country who are being raised for meat.  That clean, sanitized and wrapped turkey you purchase in the grocery store or order from a smoking facility has not had a good life.  If you have even a tiny sympathetic bone in your body, maybe this information...


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